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The LilyHawk Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $1k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $80k
- $250k+3 grants · $4.9M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| VIRGINIA ARTS FESTIVAL | $2,353,124 |
| NORFOLK BOTANICAL GARDEN INC | $2,294,918 |
| VANGUARD LANDING INC | $250,000 |
| VIRGINIA STAGE COMPANY | $80,000 |
| SLOVER LIBRARY FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY20–20, $25k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
5 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 49% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.5M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- TVTHE VIRGINIA ARTS FESTIVAL INC8× · 2018–2025 · $2.8M · revenue +74%
- CBCHESAPEAKE BAY ACADEMY5× · 2018–2022 · $439k · revenue +5%
- THTHE HURRAH PLAYERS INC2× · 2017–2018 · $50k · revenue +25%
Funded once
- FOFOODBANK OF SOUTHEASTERN VIRGINIAgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $35k · revenue +67%
- TSTHE SALVATION ARMYone grant, 2020 · $20k
- AAAN ACHIEVABLE DREAM INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $20k · revenue +66%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The mission of voices for virginia's children is to champion public policies and legislation that achieve positive and equitable outcomes for young people.
Vcca's mission is to provide time and space for national and international writers, visual artists, and composers of talent and promise to bring forth their finest works, because the arts are vital, diversity is a strength, and creativity…
VCDC delivers vital financial resources and support while collaborating with local organizations dedicated to social impact, ensuring the creation of affordable homes in vibrant neighborhoods where everyone can thrive.
VCIC works with schools, businesses, and communities to achieve success through inclusion.
Virginia community action partnership (vacap) is the statewide membership association for virginia's thirty-one non-profit and public community action agencies. vacaps mission is to build the capacity and competencies of virginias…
Home of va ensures equal access to housing opportunities by building individual capacity, ensuring compliance with fair housing laws, and promoting effective public policy to advance housing justice.
To inspire at-risk children to think creatively, courageously and critically about their life goals and choices by providing free theater arts and creative writing programs, in conjunction with in-depth mentoring, throughout their growing…
To distribute food effectively through collaborative efforts that minimize hunger, promote nutrition and encourage self-reliance through education.
The mission of Virginia Legal Aid Society is to resolve serious legal problems of low-income people, promote economic and family stability, reduce poverty through effective legal assistance, and to champion equal justice.
Habitat for Humanity Virginia provides support to Virginia affiliates so that they can build or facilitate affordable housing by offering advocacy, organizational development, funding, and resource development
The Virginia Home provides compassionate and professional residential care to adult Virginians with irreversible physical disabilities, ensuring that their lifelong comfort and security will never be compromised, regardless of the ability…
Driven by its core values of artistic excellence and inclusion, the virginia symphony orchestra is dedicated to creating world-class symphonic performances, transformative music education, and purposeful community engagement throughout…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hope House Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Vanguard Landing Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
15 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 15 of the 17 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds THE VIRGINIA ARTS FESTIVAL INC ↗
- Who funds NORFOLK BOTANICAL GARDEN INC ↗
- Who funds CHESAPEAKE BAY ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds VANGUARD LANDING INC ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA STAGE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds THE HURRAH PLAYERS INC ↗
- Who funds FOODBANK OF SOUTHEASTERN VIRGINIA ↗
- Who funds AN ACHIEVABLE DREAM INC ↗
- Who funds JUDEO-CHRISTIAN OUTREACH CENTERINC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG AUDIENCES OF VIRGINIA INC ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS INC ↗
- Who funds Samaritan House Inc ↗
- Who funds MERCY CHEFS INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE HOUSE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SLOVER LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Patricia and Douglas Perry Foundation DBA The Perry Family Foundation · Hampton Roads Community Foundation · Townebank Foundation · United Way of South Hampton Roads · Sentara Health · The Helen G Gifford Foundation · The Dalis Foundation · The Landmark Foundation · The Blocker Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · The Windward Foundation · Kenneth a Hall and Patricia a Hall Charitable Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization The LilyHawk Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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